ammoniac

How To Use ammoniac In A Sentence

• Then come the first faint traces of the animal - warm, only slightly rank, ammoniacal, like a wet dog drying in the sun.
• If the odor of the urine is strong, record whether the urine smells urinoid, fruity (like acetone or fingernail polish remover), putrid (fecal smelling) or ammoniacal (like ammonia).
• Sal ammoniac factories existed but none produced enough to supply all dyehouses in France. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• His breath, an ammoniacal reek that could have blistered paintwork, made her blink. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• The ammoniacal acetone supernatant containing extracted pigments was discarded, and the lipoprotein pellet was suspended in 2 mL of homogenization buffer.
• Contributing to the stink was food in various stages of preservation or decay, cooked, uncooked, and rotten; burning oils, often rancid since fresh congealed lumps of fat were usually added to old oil in the lamps; baskets used for defecation, not always dumped immediately; containers of urine saved and left standing to become ammoniacal by the decomposition of urea through bacteria; and people. The Mammoth Hunters
• With this object in view aluminium has been added from a separate crucible to the molten zinc at the moment of dipping the article to be zinced, so as to form a compound surface of zinco-aluminium, and to reduce the ashes formed from the protective coverings of sal-ammoniac, fat, glycerine, etc. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
• “The stink of our state judiciary is growing too strongly ammoniac and hippuric for endurance,” wrote George Templeton Strong in his diary. A History of American Law
• Cupron is highly selective for copper ion in ammoniacal solution and for molybdenum in acid.
• Current research has shown an increase in soil acidification through anthropogenic effects including acid precipitation and nitrification of ammoniacal fertilizers.